It is the question haunting Justin Trudeau’s Liberals as their fortunes continue to slump — is there a comeback path? More to the point, if one does exist, is it with Trudeau or without him?
After a bruising fall, with 53 per cent of people saying they have a negative impression of Trudeau in the latest Abacus polling, these questions have become more pointed in the last few weeks.
Surely Justin Trudeau knows about the unofficial 10-year rule: The one that says Canadians allow prime ministers a decade or thereabouts at the helm, before they want change. The latest example was Stephen Harper, who tried to extend his stay in 2015, only to be sidelined by Mr. Trudeau.
A 10-year time frame is fair. It is a lot of time – more than enough, actually. It gives a leader ample opportunity to put his or her priorities in place. Then fatigue tends to set in and the time-for-change chorus grows.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has dismissed a long-time Liberal and current senator’s suggestion that it may be time he step down to make room for a new Liberal party leader.
This week, Sen. Percy Downe went public with his views amid a downward trend in the polls, economic unease and rumour mills churning about potential Liberal leadership contenders readying to replace him.
In a radio interview on The Vassy Kapelos Show Thursday, Downe said he’s hearing from “many members of the caucus” who are concerned and consider the time between now and February as critical for the party to conduct some internal soul-searching about the best path forward.
He needs a long walk into a snow shovel.
Trudeau’s incompetent, divisive and ethically challenged leadership has been egregious
“You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go.” That devastating plea has been uttered on three different occasions in the British House of Commons, most notably directed at Neville Chamberlain after Germany’s invasion of Norway. It reflected an exasperation about appalling failures that forfeited any moral right to stay in elected office.
Put yourself in the shoes of a Liberal MP hearing grumbles that Justin Trudeau should go. There have been assertions he was spoiling for an election fight with Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, assurances that there was still time till the next election, and, as polls suggest a national case of Trudeau fatigue, repeated questions about whether he can hang on.
Now, there must be a new fear dawning for Liberals: They might be trapped with Mr. Trudeau.
There’s a parallel Canadian universe that exists only on Justin Trudeau’s social media feed.
It’s a place somewhere over the rainbow where unicorns graze on emerald green fields and a carefree population of politically correct citizens begin each day with a rousing hand-over-their-heart chorus of Kumbaya.
With Canadians taking sides and the fuse lit to a Middle East tinderbox, the prime minister’s daily take on his activities and priorities to his 6.5 million followers on the feed formerly known as Twitter is so wonderfully selective and chronically delusional that it’s almost comforting.
The leader of the Conservative Party in Canada and Justin Trudeau’s main opponent in the upcoming elections, Pierre Poilievre, has criticised the Canadian prime minister’s handling of the diplomatic row with Delhi once again and said he has reduced himself to a “laughing stock” in India.
“Justin Trudeau is considered a laughing stock in India – the world’s biggest democracy,” Mr Poilievre said in an interview with Nepal’s Namaste Radio Toronto.
A detailed series of internal government polls obtained by Global News paints a picture of a government struggling to win approval from Canadians on just about any issue, while painting a picture of sharp regional differences when it comes to the top priorities voters want Ottawa to tackle.
Weekly polls commissioned by the Privy Council Office from January through to June show a government given a failing grade by a healthy majority for the way it was handling the economy, climate change, Indigenous issues and crime.
Canadians are trying to tell Justin Trudeau to leave and not let the door hit him on the way out – but the PM just won’t take the hint.
Trudeau not ready to accept U.S. finding that Palestinian outfit was behind Gaza hospital blast
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday that Canadian officials are still reviewing evidence about the Gaza hospital blast that killed and maimed many Palestinian civilians and he’s not prepared to say who’s responsible.
That’s a departure from what U.S. President Joe Biden and American national security services have said about the explosion.
“We are working closely with allies to determine exactly what happened,” Trudeau told a press conference with Caribbean leaders in Ottawa when asked if he accepted the Israeli version of events that has since been endorsed by the U.S. government.
He hasn’t got anything to lose, his image and that of his party are in the dumpster.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s speech in the House of Commons Monday, rightly extolling Canadian values in these angry times, would have sounded authentic if he hadn’t betrayed many of those virtues.
“Our diversity is our strength,” he told Parliament at one point, revisiting one of his favourite themes. The shared values of freedom and respect were Canadian core principles, he explained. He was right. He was also right to highlight them after Hamas’ brutal invasion of Israel and subsequent springing-up of unwelcome rallies that cheered for terrorist “resistance” across Canada.
Thanks to a fine 🇨🇦. Full video of 🇨🇦 PM @JustinTrudeau jumping to condemn 🇮🇱 of war crimes based on false info. His gov tried to scrub the video. Alter history. And had it scrubbed. We will hold you to account, Prime Minister. The world will hold u to account. https://t.co/19Qk3Jyo1X
— Vivian Bercovici (@VivianBercovici) October 17, 2023
OTTAWA, Oct 11 (Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has had a tough year at home and on the global stage, pushing his support as low as it has ever been, but his backers still see him as the Liberal Party’s best chance to secure a historic fourth term in the next election.
Trudeau, 51, has defied low polling numbers before, to win three elections, starting in 2015. A federal election is not due until October 2025, a decade after he first took power. Right now, most opinion polls show Trudeau significantly trailing his newest rival, Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre.
When a parent-led protest against sexual orientation and gender identity instruction in public schools took to the streets on Sept. 20, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said transphobia and homophobia have “no place in this country,” adding “we strongly condemn this hate and its manifestations.”
The Muslim Association of Canada would raise the most noted objection to the statement, describing it as being “deeply inflammatory.” But when reporters brought up the MAC’s criticism this week, Trudeau seemed to suggest that his statement had been talking about somebody else. “I never suggested that someone who’s concerned about parental rights is somehow filled with hate or intolerance,” he said.
He’s a sociopath.
The Abacus Data polling firm was out in the field over the past week, surveying almost 2,000 Canadians, and one of the questions was, “What keeps you up at night?”
David Coletto, the CEO of Abacus, was struck by how people’s main worries were rooted so close to home: the cost of living, inflation and of course, housing itself. Those are the words that shout out of the word cloud Abacus created to display the findings.
